Khoa Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > I don't quite understand the use of the Host: header field in HTTP 1.1 > request. For example, I wrote a simple script to connect to > www.google.com <http://www.google.com> on port 80. After the connection, > I send the following GET request: > > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: whatever.com <http://whatever.com> > ... > > The web server doesn't seem to care what I put in the Host field and > always returns the google home page. Is this behaviour acceptable? Why a > HTTP 1.1 web server insists on the presence of a Host field but doesn't > seem to do any kind of checking on it? What if you have the same index for all vhosts ? What if you are using just 1 vhost (so, the default one) ? It isn't a matter of HTTP/1.1 spec. It is a matter on how you configure your webserver. > > Thanks, > Khoa --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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